Today's image was shot west of Choteau, MT along the Rocky Mountain front. This is one of the most beautiful places in Montana.

Here mountains rise up from the prairie forming a rampart of granite for miles in both directions.

But just east of where these majestic mountains rise there is a small area of land that offers an incling of whats to come. The foothills of the front. This can be a desolate area as depicted in this image but at the same time it is a beautiful Eco system all to it's own.

Just to the left of where this image was taken is the Pine Butte Preserve. It is a swampy area adjacent to a pine covered butte. The area is home to coyotes, deer, elk, beaver, grizzlies, eagles and many more species of animals.

This road, known as The Belview Road, is a long and desolate stretch of gravel road that leads you back to Choteau. It is also the home to Egg Mountain, a site that has produced some of the most important information of dinosaur habits to date.

If your interested, here is a link to a site that gives a good synopsis of Egg Mountain's history. http://mathscience.mt.gov/Egg.html (I couldn't make the link work so you'll have to copy and paste it)